Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

Nesma Allam, Ph.D. student, Winter 2017-Summer 2022  
Awards: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS), Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, Dr. Donald R Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental (Civil) Engineering, Petro-Canada Graduate Scholarship, UofA Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, FGSR Completion Scholarship

Nervana Haffiez, M.Sc. Student, Summer 2020-Summer 2022
Current Position: Research Assistant (Dhar Lab@UAlberta, UofA)

Basem S. Zakaria, Ph.D. student, Fall 2017-Fall 2021
Awards: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize, Donald R Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental (Civil) Engineering, UofA Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta

Kaitlin Hiller, M.Eng Student, Fall 2021
Current Position: Regulatory Engineer (EIT), Ovintiv, Calgary

Wafa Dastyar, M.Sc. Student, Fall 2019-Summer 2021
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Univesity of Miami

Tae H. Chung, M.Sc. Student, Fall 2018-Fall 2020
Awards: Alberta Innovates Graduate Scholarship, Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation (KCSF), University of Alberta Graduate Fellowship 2019,  Graduate Student Teaching Award (GSTA), Leonard E. Gads Teaching Assistant Award, Westmoreland Coal Company Graduate Scholarship in Environmental Engineering
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Alberta

Mayank Dhadwal, M.Sc. Student, Summer 2019-Fall 2020 (Co-supervised with Dr. Yang Liu)
Current Position: EIT, Pinchin Ltd., Edmonton.

Hok Nam Joey TingM.Sc. Student, Fall 2019-Fall 2020 (Co-supervised with Dr. Hamid Zaman)

Felipe Pereira de AlbuquerqueM.Eng. Student, Fall 2020 (Co-supervised with Dr. Hamid Zaman)
Current Position: Junior Waste Diversion Engineer, City of Lethbridge

Peijun ZhouM.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Sarmad MagsiM.Eng. in Environmental Engineering Student, Fall 2019-Winter 2020

Bappi Chowdhury, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Summer 2018-Fall 2019
Awards:  Lalmohan Samantaraya International Graduate Award in Engineering
Current Position: FCF Operations Engineer, EPCOR

John Ryue, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Winter 2018-Spring 2019
Awards: Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship

Qi Huang, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Fall 2017-Summer 2019 (co-supervised with Dr. Liu)
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Alberta

Sajib Barua, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Winter 2017-Winter 2019
Awards: Alberta Innovates Scholarship, Gordon R Finch Memorial Scholarship, Dr. Donald R Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Environmental (Civil) Engineering
Current Position: Junior Project Engineer, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC), Sarnia

Postdoc/Research Associate/ Research Assistant

Dr. Mohamed Meshref, Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2019-April 2021

Dr. Long Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2017-January 2020
(Co-supervised with Dr. Daryl McCartney)

Tae Chung, Research Assistant, Summer 2018
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Alberta

Felipe Pereira de Albuquerque, Research Assistant, April-October  2021 
Current Position: Junior Waste Diversion Engineer, City of Lethbridge

Undergraduate Students

Tristin MacDonald, Dean’s Research Award Program, Fall 2021-Winter 2022
Environmental Engineering Program

Current Position: Environmental Engineering EIT, MPE Engineering

Hok Nam Joey Ting, Dean’s Research Award Program, Winter 2019
Environmental Engineering Program

Awards: Outstanding Research Performance Award from the Faculty of Engineering

Rochelle De Omoania, Dean’s Research Award Program, Winter 2019
Environmental Engineering Program 

Brandon On, Dean’s Research Award Program, Winter 2019
Civil Engineering Program

Current Position: Geotechnical Engineer (EIT), BGC Engineering Inc.

Alyssa Pasion, Undergraduate Volunteer Researcher, Winter 2019
Environmental Engineering Program

Tae Chung, Dean’s Research Award Program, Winter 2018 
Environmental Engineering Program
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Alberta

Haopeng Jin, Undergraduate Volunteer Researcher, Winter 2018
Environmental Engineering Program

Summer Student/Research Intern 

Dylan Anderson, Summer Intern, Summer 2022
I-STEAM Pathways Environmental Education Program for Indigenous Students, University of Alberta
Current Position: Undergraduate Student, Engineering Physics, University of Alberta

Zexuan Ju, NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) Program, Summer 2022
Current Position: Graduate Student, Standford University, USA

Raeanna Willsey, NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) Program, Summer 2022

Aayush Kumar Choudhary, Mitacs Globalink Intern, Summer 2022
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India

Juliana Martinez Ducuara,Mitacs Globalink Intern, Summer 2022
B.Sc. in Biological Engineering, National University of Colombia

Raul Bello Cruz, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern, Summer 2019
Undergraduate student, Biotechnology Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios superiors de Monterrey Campus Estado de México, Summer 2019-Present

Hok Nam Joey Ting, NSERC USRA student, Summer 2019
Current Position: M.Sc. Student, University of Alberta

Visiting Graduate Students 

Raj Shekhar Bose, Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow, Summer 2019-Winter 2020 
Supported by Indian Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Ph.D. Student, School of Water Resources, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India

Visiting Professors 

Dr. Linyu Deng, Visiting Professor, April 2022-April 2023 (Supported by China Scholarship Council)
Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China

Dr. Md. Abdullah-Al-Mamun, Visiting Professor, Summer 2018
Assistant Professor, Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman